Self-esteem, social support, occupational stress and health in medical profession

• Autorzy: Ostrowski T. M.
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The aim of the research was to discover psychological mechanisms which may be treated as buffers in the relation between stress and occurrence of psychic and somatic disorders in the medical profession. House’s model (1981) of the relation between occupational stress and health provided the initial theoretical background, because of the protective role of social support indicated in this model. A group of 121 physicians was examined. It consisted of cardiologists, haemodynamical physicians, neurosurgeons, gynaecologist-ob-stetricians, prosthetic dentists and dental surgeons. Methods: Job Evaluation Questionnaire by Dudek et al., General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) by Goldberg, Mood and Health State Questionnaire by Rząsa, Self-Esteem Scale by M. Rosenberg and Significant Other Scale by Power & others. Results: Higher stress is connected with greater number of disorders, but more somatic than mental. According to the model, social support reduces the pathogenetic significance of occupational stress, but self-esteem appeared to play a more important role, pushing social support into second place in the model. In the case of somatic problems responsibility remains a pathogenetic component of stress, in that it is not reduced by self-esteem. In mental area of disorders self-esteem and social support eliminate all components of stress, in their direct pathological influence. The self-esteem model of relation between stress and health problems in a medical job is proposed, as a result of research.

• Wydawca: -
• Czasopismo: Ergonomia
• Rocznik: 2007
• Tom: 29
• Numer: 1
• Opis fizyczny: p.49-59,fig.,ref.

Twórcy

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Ostrowski T. M.

• Institute of Applied Psychology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

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